Quotes About Perspective

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

rather split his trousers than an infinitive.

I've been taking things too seriously for years,' I said. 'I'm afraid it makes me a difficult man to live with. But I've stayed alive, sweetheart. And that means a lot to me.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

As such, the Deaf do not regard their absence of hearing as a disability, any more than a Spanish-speaking person would regard the inability to speak English as a disability.

It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me

When [Yoko] kicked me out, I saw I was kicked out. When I was kicked out, I realized where I was, which was on a raft in the middle of the universe, and whatever happened, presuming I could have started another relationship, I would have ended up in the same place--if I was lucky. And that's a big if.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to someone else.

War spells out my philosophy of "No right or wrong"— just "Your right, my wrong"—everything is subjective.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

A therapist is a very smart person who wears glasses and can help you with your problems by asking a lot of questions instead of giving you shots, which is really amazing. But a psycho, as everyone knows, is a crazy person in the movies that you never want to run into in real life. So a psychotherapist is a very smart crazy person that you should stay away from for your own good.

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.